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[Bug localedata/14510] New: LC_NUMERIC wrong for various latin america locales
- From: "law at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:54:17 +0000
- Subject: [Bug localedata/14510] New: LC_NUMERIC wrong for various latin america locales
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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14510
Bug #: 14510
Summary: LC_NUMERIC wrong for various latin america locales
Product: glibc
Version: 2.17
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: localedata
AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
ReportedBy: law@redhat.com
CC: libc-locales@sources.redhat.com
Classification: Unclassified
Back in November 2011, Uli checked in a large change which affected the
LC_NUMERIC settings of various es_* locales. This change didn't reference any
supporting documentation.
It's now being reported that various es_* locals have the wrong LC_NUMERIC
settings for the decimal mark and thousands separator.
First I compared the es_* locales to CLDR for LC_NUMERIC settings. This turned
up several differences (es_DO, es_GT, es_HN, es_MX, es_NI, es_PA, es_PE, es_PR,
es_SV).
For each of those locales I then went in search of documents, preferably
government documents which would show usage of the decimal mark and thousands
separator.
Mexico:
http://www.economia.gob.mx/files/diagnostico_economia_mexicana.pdf
Dominican Republic:
http://www.bancentral.gov.do/noticias/avisos/aviso2010-06-25.pdf
We can get grouping from this document from the Guatemala Government. Once we
know grouping uses ',', then the decimal mark must be '.'.
http://www.ine.gob.gt/np/enei/ENEI2011.htm
Honduras:
http://www.ine.gob.hn/drupal/node/175
http://archivo.laprensa.hn/Negocios/Ediciones/2011/02/07/Noticias/Tasa-de-desempleo-de-Honduras-subio-a-44
Nicaragua:
http://www.bcn.gob.ni/estadisticas/economicas_anuales/nicaragua_en_cifras/2010/Nicaragua_en_cifras2010.pdf
Panama:
http://www.mef.gob.pa/portal/2011-Comunicados/2011-DISMINUYESUSTANCIALMENTEELDESEMPLEOENPANAMA.html
Puerto Rico:
http://www.periodicolaperla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3606:en-puerto-rico-la-tasa-de-empleo-cae-al-nivel-mas-bajo-en-la-historia&catid=93:analisis-economico&Itemid=300
El Salvador:
http://www.minec.gob.sv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=1:noticias-ciudadano&id=1567:encuesta&Itemid=77
All the above referenced documents show a decimal mark as '.' and the thousands
separator as ',', which indicate glibc's localedata is wrong.
Interestingly enough, Peru which was supposed to use '.' as the decimal
separator and ',' as the thousands separator according to CLDR seems to do the
opposite according to these government inflation and labor reports:
http://www.bcrp.gob.pe/docs/Publicaciones/Reporte-Inflacion/2010/marzo/Reporte-de-Inflacion-Marzo-2010.pdf
http://www.inei.gob.pe/biblioineipub/bancopub/Est/Lib0909/libro.pdf
Thus es_PE is correct as-is.
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